23 Jan 2016 11:18:56
Can't say I dislike the music. Jackson Browne, Neil Young, James Taylor etc. The ole "horse with no name" gets the odd rattle regularly.
what I was suggesting the protests in America were very much lead by musicians. The real politicans, revolutionaries, MLK, Mal X had a short shift.
{Ed002's Note - I don't know if you can find much on it but the "Week of The Angry Arts" and Vietnam Mobilization in Berkeley and San Francisco might be a useful thing for you to research. Starting on April 9, 1967 at was a concert at Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco where Country Joe and The Fish, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sopwith Camel, Big Brother and the Holding Company played a benefit to raise money and awareness for the protests. There was then a vigil (April 11) at San Quentin Prison where again there were performances by Grateful Dead & Country Joe and The Fish leading up to the execution of Aaron Mitchell on April 12). On the 13th poets joined the bands in protest (Richard Brautigan, Kenneth Patchen, Lew Welch, Robert Duncan, Lenore Kandel, Dave Meltzer, Tom Parkinson, George Stanley, James Broughton and Jeff Shepphard. The afternoon of the 14th saw a concert in Panhandle Park where Country Joe and The Fish were joined by New York political musicians The Fugs. That evening the Candle Opera (a night time, Diggers sponsored free show, arranged as part of Spring Mobilization) took place in the park to further raise awareness. On April 15 Country Joe and The Fish (on the back of a truck - filming of "How We Stopped The War") were filmed on Market Street on the way to Kezar Stadium where Country Joe and The Fish, Judy Collins, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller Band. Also appearances from Julian Bond, Eldridge Cleaver, Morris Evenson, Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, David Harris, and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Robert Vaughn (of ""Man From Uncle""fame) and Robert Scheer (syndicated columnist). They used Joe and the band as electrified pied-pipers, playing from the back of a truck to draw the marchers down Market Street, through the city’s financial district and then to the stadium. Once the crowd of 75,000 was inside, the truck pulled outside, band still aboard, so speechifying by the likes of Julian Bond, Robert Scheer and Eldridge Cleaver could begin.
The revolutionaries were the likes of Bobby Seale who I got to spend some time with recently and Eldridge Cleaver. It did not run to form for all of the Panthers though as Huey P Newton lived a sustained fouled up life until the end came. There is still political activism in music with the likes of Peter Stampfel, Bruce Barthol and Ed Saunders still performing regularly.
The likes of Jackson Browne et al were Laurel Canyon folk - I spent some time there in 1975 and 1975 but it was a whole different world. Their activism was closer to what Mimi and Banana were doing with Bread and Roses.
You might want to read up on what happened at People's Park with the University, Reagan and the National Guard.}
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